On Sat, 2 Jan 2016, Bill Cole wrote:
On 2 Jan 2016, at 9:11, RW wrote:
1. \d{1,2}+ doesn't make any sense, you need either {1,2} or +
It's a bit esoteric, but here's what the perlre man page says:
{n,m}+ Match at least n but not more than m times and give nothing
back
Put another way: possessive but not greedy. In some REs it is useful to
prevent backtracking. In this one there's no chance of that, but its
harmless.
That syntax may introduce dependencies on which version of perl is
installed.
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